The Commanding Heights: the Battle Between Government & the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw
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Author: Daniel Yergin, Joseph StanislawEdition: Paperback
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Published: 1999-02-23
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Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Touchstone Books
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Book Review: A disappointment: all about what happened not why.
Summary: 3 Stars
After Daniel Yergin's fascinating books on the oil industry (read it!)and on Russia, Commanding Heights was a big disappointment. Any reader who has a decent newspaper would know most of the story of the shift in the last thirty years from state planning and intervention to the free market. Although if history is what you are after, the story of this transition in different parts of the world is well told. What is missing is (1) any explanation of why this all happened and (2) any coherent view of what is likely to happen next -are we going to shift back again or is the intellectual revolution set for a long while. One needs (1) to come up with (2) and Yergin and Stanislaw do not tackle either. PS: The chapter on China was particularly weak.
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